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Many reviewers have panned the movie, but Catholic spokesmen are divided on its worth. Father Edmund Ryan, executive vice president of Georgetown, Blatty's alma mater, is pleased that Jesuit priests, who are the exorcists and their colleagues in the movie, are sympathetically portrayed. "I don't think it is a religious film," says Ryan, but he does think it will produce "a great deal of thought," especially about the battle between good and evil that the demonic encounter portrays. "There is probably more debate right now about the devil than at any time since Rosemary...
...psychiatrist at California's Atascadero State Hospital did not think that Edmund Emil Kemper III, a 20-year-old giant who five years earlier had killed his grandparents, should return to society. Even so, a parole board eventually sent Kemper home to the comforts of life with his mother. Within three years of his release, the 6-ft. 9-in. youth had slaughtered and dismembered Mom, six coeds and a friend of the family. Last month Kemper was convicted on eight counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. Angry Californians were wondering...
Comet Flight. Excitement about the comet is not confined to scientists. Planetariums round the world are drawing overflow crowds for Kohoutek shows. Telescopes and binoculars are being sold at an exceptionally brisk pace; Edmund Scientific Co., of Barrington, N.J., reports a 200% gain this year in its sale of telescopes; Los Angeles' Marschutz Optical Co. is completely sold out. This week the Queen Elizabeth 2 sailed from New York, booked to the gunwales with 1,693 passengers on a three-day comet cruise. Before dawn every morning, passengers were invited to the decks for telescope viewing and comet lectures...
...comet of 1456 and many of the others that influenced ancient history were one and the same: the celestial visitor that became known as Halley's comet. A 17th century protégé of Isaac Newton, Edmund Halley was convinced that comets travel, like planets, in closed orbits around the sun. Using his mentor's formulas, he calculated the paths of comets dating back to 1337 and found that three-those of 1456, 1531 and 1607 -had roughly the same orbit as the comet of 1682 (which he had seen as a young man). Halley concluded that...
...Segretti, Chapin directed a clandestine guerrilla-warfare operation against Democrats. Segretti has testified that he was hired by Chapin, whom he had known since both attended the University of Southern California, to play malicious tricks on the opposition, including distributing a letter, printed on stationery stolen from Senator Edmund Muskie, that accused Senators Hubert Humphrey and Henry Jackson of sexual misconduct...